Part 1: How to backup Office 2016 product key

It’s very necessary to make a backup for the product key in case of loss. If you have a backup, then you won’t need to spend time or money to find or re-buy the product key when you need to use the key to reinstall or activate Office 2016 again. The product key typically contains 25 digits, which makes it hard to manually remember and write it down. Hence, to backup Office 2016 product key easily, you can use one specialized tool.

Tips: The Product Key Finder is a specialized tool that can find and backup keys for various software products installed on computer.

Step 2: Click on Start Recovery.

Step 3: It will discover and list the product keys of all software currently installed on your computer, click on Save to File and save the keys in a notepad file for easier viewing.

Step 4: Save the notepad which stores the keys in a safe place, such as on a flash drive, or on any cloud storage service.

Part 2: How to backup and restore Office 2013/2016 activation

Once you successfully activate Office 2016, the activation info is stored on your local disk. However, system restallation or some other actions will wipe the activation info. Hence, you can backup the activation in advance so that you can simply restore it after you reinstall Office 2016, which can save you the bother of reactivation.

Section 1. To backup Office 2016 activation on Windows 10/8, just go to C:\Windows\System32\spp, and then copy and paste the store folder into a safe place.

Section 2. To restore the activation, do as follows

Step 1: Make sure Office 2016 is installed. Close all open Office 2016 document.